No Religion Quotes
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.
I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
